Selim al Rashid

Selim "The Holy Warrior" al Rashid (1048-) was a general and mathematician of the Sultanate of Rum, and the Bey of Yerevan. He was loyal to Jalal ad-Dawlah during the Seljuk Civil Wars, and he conquered the city of Baghdad in 1098 from the Abbasid Caliphate.

Biography
Selim al Rashid was born to a ghulam (slave soldier) family of the Sultanate of Rum in the city of Armenia, and rose to become the Bey of the City. The Beylik of Yerevan ruled over the town and its surrounding region, and Selim aided Jalal ad-Dawlah in the Seljuk Civil Wars of the 1080s. He became known as "Selim the Holy Warrior" after joining a jihad against the city of Baghdad (declared against the Abbasid Caliphate by Imam Baraka) in 1098, and he governed the city and oversaw its growth.